Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-07


Hops Ia the valley are qu0sa0le .
not more than ~ OK 1s3 cents Per
pound, and probably they weud rot
command quite ehose dgurea There
Is bat lille doipg. q has been the
case for some days past This morn
Ing samuel Ramsey. Of Seattle. who
has been 10 the market here for three
seasens, bid u cents for 100 bales Of
1857 crop. II is reported that plenty
Of growers In the valley are offering
1851 crop q Is cents.
Mr.. Allen @. Mason has offered to
donate 70 Thomas Maloney ore hun
dreA feet ffonfage Of bis water front
property in the First Ward. on COG
dition that he shall construct thereon
q shingHe mill 10 cost not less than
1900 Mr.. Maioaey has accepted
tina liberal proposition. and win con-
mence the erection thereof within the
the next three weeks A demand for
Puget Sound shingles has been ere
sted In the East. and ~ soon as direct
railroad Communication Is established
with the East there will undoubtedly
be large shipments 10 thsi direction.
and such 40 industry will be found .
profssb investment. Tacoma News.
The Satsop Railroad Company has
made . great many improvements 10
and around Shelton, viz, built . sub
stantial wharf and warehouse. build
ings for residences and store, and
also engine house; and have about
i've miles OF road with q very sub
ssantial road bed laid, and from 200
to $50 men are ct work al the time
on the construction. The Safsop
Compasy have g general merchan-
disc store here which supplies their
camps and the trade In general. The
company's Office and the post ONCE
are also In the building. Mason
County Journal
ALASKA
As sure Is the world lasts will the
timber Of Alaska, sneered ct By some
Is being TOO far away, and falsely re-
presented by others IS Of indifferent
sire, become at no distant day an i'm
partsnt element Of trade and industry
on this coast.
One Of the ridiculous practices Of
the Alaska Indian Is that Of taking .
salt water bath early on the coolest
winter morning. Not only do the
male adults among them indulge in
this practice, but the children. even
those of teader years. are compelled
to participate, under penalty Of being
thrown into the ice-c0ld water, and
kept there until they learn 70 take
their medicine like . man.
Lieutenant stoney reports finding
q dive foot vein of coal Of good
quality In the Nuskoyim region,
while another party stands ready to
show 10 any one who will guaranty
him an interest in the mines when
developed, . similar vein on Cooks
Inlet, the coal from which he says he
has tried and found every Bit as good
as, If not better than, that Of Van
couver Island.
Work is brisk at Juneau. Two
sawmills are running constantly and
buildings going up all the time. j..
j. McGrRth has nearly completed his
new hotel, which will be of good ca
pacify and nicely finished. Thirty
tWo laborers from San Francisco
we're sent up to the Treadwell mill
by the company, on the Idaho. aud
the work there Is now done almost
entirely by white men.
The Wrangel Glacier for Novem-
Der mentions the arrival there of Mr..
James +. Colbreath, who has spent
several seasons up the Stickine river,
where he has g farm upon which he
has successfully grown wheat, oats,
barley, timothy, turnips and potatoes.
He says. according 10 the Glacier,
that Iurnips and potatoes grow TO an
enormous size--a fact which he EN-.
phasized by exhibiting "a potato,
solid and without prongs"-which
weighed seven pounds. Mr.. Col.
breath says that rutabagas weighing
from thifty-five TO forty pounds each
are grown 10 that region, which Is Ia
the interior, where the winters are
long and severe and the summers
correspondingly short.
Sitka rainfall data shows an excess
Of AL inches over of the greatest
rainfall ii six years, and an excess
of 6.S3 inches beyond the mean for
the same period. The precipitation
for the past three months exhibits
total of 1885 inches, which Is abnor
mally large, even for this rainy place,
making the rainfall for the year. az
to the LIST inst, 1877 inches, which ex
ceeds the mean annual rainfall By
80 Al inches. taking the mean of the
signal service observations; and tax
ing the mean for 81 years, the time
during which rainfall observation
have been taken In Sitka, shows Gu
excess above the normal of Az
inches, and still another month tC
hear from.
The new schooner Onyx, built re.
Gently at Chilean. Alaska, by Messrs
Hamilton & Cobb, for local trade II
southeastern Alaska more particu
larry, arrived at Sitka last week
fhe 0nyx on arriving was entered
for enrolment ct the custom house
with John johnson IS master. who
navigated her on this trip. Her di
mansions are, length, SIS feet
breadth, l73 feet; depth of hold. 5
feet; gross tonnage. 1888; net, "a Is
She can carry q larger load than u
indicated by her adneausuremenl
figures, having her deck protected BY
a deep bulwark. She reached SItka
with over SO. 900 feet OF lumber.
The development of the quartz
mining interests about Janeau. now
well underway, together with the
opening Of new mines and erection
Of new mills Ga Douglas IslAad. Is
desgi1ed 10 make Of Junesu one OF
the richest and most prosperous min-
Ing towns IN the United States In
deed. the place can no longer be re-
garded IS q mere mining camp; Il Is
takisg on the airs and improvements
Of full fiedged city; new buildings,
and OF q much better class. are going